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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 8, 2018 | Bonhams | London | Fine Japanese Art | 52 | $****** - ****** | A Miscellanous group of sake cups and other lacquer pieces |
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8.3 cm (3.27 in)
Comprising five red lacquer sakazuki (sake cups), each of differing size and decorated in gold takamaki-e with different scenes: (1) a throughfare down a row of shops, signed Byakkisai, ; (2) a branch of pine lying beneath an open fan embellished with the single character ki, signed Motomasa on the front and Kizo Tatsumi Kiyomasa on the base, ; (3) the hull of a ship piled with precious things, unsigned, ; (4) a hawk perched on a pine tree, unsigned, ; (5) a bird perched on a cherry branch, unsigned, ; a black-lacquer teacaddy decorated with cherry blossoms and trailing fern, unsigned, ; an inlaid wood tonkotsu decorated with a blackbird perched on a berried branch on one side and in flight against the crescent moon on the other, ; the pipecase carved with persimmons on one side and a long inscription (unread) on the reverse, possibly signed by Tosai, ; the last a stag antler kiseruzutsu (pipecase) in the form of two twisted lotus stalks, inscribed with a seal Koku
